A doomed love triangle, set in 1949 on the prairie of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in present day Kazakhstan, near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

A real life drama unfolds of the stage that is supposed to carry an opening night of a musical... People, who were headed to a cheerful and bright celebration, come face to face with death. They become hostages, they go through a terrible ordeal preserving their human dignity and courage. The ordinary people become heroes.